Time Bomb Quotes

• Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Two, Evil, Choices

  "Torture? No. Except …" by Charles Krauthammer, jewishworldreview.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it!

  Lee In-woo

  Drama, Bombs, May

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• A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

  George Weigel

  Bombs, Dramatic, Theological

  George Weigel (2009). “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II”, p.343, Zondervan

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• A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Stars, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

  Barack Obama

  Target, Bombs, Used

  "The Boston Bombing and the Failure of the Military/Intelligence Complex" by Renee Parsons, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

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• A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

  James Bovard

  Rights, Government, Waiting

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Foundation, Bombs

  "Space and the Spirit of Man". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1965.

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• Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

  Abdallah II

  Waiting, Bombs, Jerusalem

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• The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

  Penelope Lively

  Photography, Past, Bombs

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• The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Truth, Church, Bombs

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• I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Views, Bombs

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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• I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before.

  Charles Lloyd

  Character, Sick, Waiting

  "A Fireside Chat With Charles Lloyd". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2004.

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• If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.

  John McCain

  Dream, Children, Careers

  "McCain offers 'new fiscal conservatism' with tax plan" by Douglas S. Wood, www.cnn.com. January 11, 2000.

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• The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.

  Michio Kaku

  Light, Japan, Earthquakes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Dark, Ducks

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• Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Book, News, Bombs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it. What I learned very quickly was that my lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb. I was a heavy smoker and an even heavier drinker and apparently together they are a deadly mixture.

  Jack Wild

  Bombs, Lifestyle, Made

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder or manic depression or Bipolar divide or mental illness. How can I find an identity in that? It certainly isn't something I can bring up in conversation, without a reaction of judgement or even fear.

  Paul Dalio

  Judgement, Bipolar, Identity

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me.

  Trisha Goddard

  Children, Taken, Bangs

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• For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Mind, Bombs, Matter

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• Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.

  Ray Comfort

  Cancer, Thinking, Smoking

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• Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

  Al Gore

  Epic, Years, Weather

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• The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

  Bill Rodgers

  Sports, New York, Giants

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• There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.

  Philip Caputo

  Attitude, Military, War

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• The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

  Melanne Verveer

  Children, Quality, Bombs

  Source: www.elle.com

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